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Article: Vietnam at War: the short course.(Book review)
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- December 1, 2009
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Vietnam at War, by Mark Philip Bradley, Oxford University Press, 2009
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HISTORIAN MARK BRADLEY is a serious scholar. A professor at the University of Chicago, Bradley already has an impressive list of prior works on the history of Vietnam, including Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Post-Colonial Vietnam, 1919-1950, and co-editing credit for Making Sense of the Vietnam War. His style is direct, his research is thorough, and happily, his writing is not overly burdened by some of the social and political theories that sometimes afflict the works of academic historians. All of these characteristics make Bradley's newest ...